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Meet the Writer: Nicholas Kaufmann

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Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, Thriller Award-nominated, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated, and Dragon Award-nominated author of numerous works of horror and dark fantasy, including the bestsellers 100 Fathoms Below (written with Steven L. Kent) and The Hungry Earth. His short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Interzone, and others. In …

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Look Out For … Out of Aztlan by V. Castro

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“With her latest collection, Castro channels tales of horror and revenge from the mythical home of the Aztec people.” From an inverted temple deep in a lake of blood, a goddess rises to purify the earth. Beachgoers are attacked by strange jellyfish spawned from garbage heaps. Pearl divers plan their revenge against the merchants that …

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Look Out For … The Stone Serpent by Nicholas Kaufmann

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“With his latest, Kaufmann returns to the world of Dr. Laura Powell with a pulse-pounding story of deranged cult leaders and biotech gone horribly wrong.” When a petrified corpse lands on Medical Examiner Dr. Laura Powell’s autopsy table, she fully believes it’s a fossil. Strangely, all the evidence suggests otherwise, as the man on her …

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Look Out For … The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz

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With modern sensibilities, Janz tackles the Gothic tale, stamping the genre with his unique spin of blood-chilling horror.  Reeling from a nasty divorce and the public fallout that followed, American writer Arthur Pearce begins to travel abroad to England. It’s the spring of 1912, and while on a London-bound train he meets the lovely Sarah …

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Look Out For … White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

“With her latest novel, Wurth presents a haunting tale of a young woman searching for the one thing she’s never had, consumed by disturbing visions of a past some don’t want her to see.” Heavy metal loving Kari James is a Stephen King fan and is easily found in her favorite dive bar in Denver, …

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Meet the Writer: T.C. Parker

T.C. Parker is a writer and researcher based in the fox-ravaged wilds of Leicestershire. T.C. has been a copywriter, a lecturer, and, very briefly, an academic. T.C. now runs a semiotics and cultural insight agency by day and dreams up horror and crime fiction at night, when the kids are asleep. Visit T.C.’s website here …

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Look Out For … The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill

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“With his latest, Nevill cranks up the fear factor with a nightmarish folk horror tale just in time for Halloween.” Jess McMachen needs a little luck. Broke, running from her abusive ex, and raising a child alone are pushing Jess to breaking point. She takes a job caring for Flo Gardner. A disturbed shut-in and …

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Look Out For … Soft Places by Betty Rocksteady

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“With Soft Places, Rocksteady gives us a novella/graphic novel hybrid, providing the harrowing tale as well as the eerie illustrations within.” Naked, wandering the streets with a strange head wound, Johnna is lost with nowhere to turn. Believed to be psychotic, Johnna is forced into the care of psychiatrist Dr. Gonne. Dr. Gonne’s methods are …

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Look Out For … The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett

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“With her debut novel, Barnett uses dual timelines to present a dangerous shifting forest, showing some secrets are best left undiscovered.” In 1643: a group of soldiers in Northern England are ambushed. To survive, the hide out in nearby Moresby Wood. They know this isn’t a good idea. Known as an unnatural place, Moresby Wood …

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Look Out For … A Child Alone with Strangers by Philip Fracassi

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“With his latest, Fracassi gives us an epic supernatural procedural that dares to drag the darkest horrors out into the open.” After Henry Thorne is kidnapped, he becomes a prisoner in a farmhouse in the middle of the forest, isolated from all contact. But he’s really not that alone, as he finds himself connecting with …

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